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Former Toms River Regional Schools Superintendent Michael J. Ritacco owes the district more than $4 million in restitution to taxpayers, lawyers for the U.S. Attorney's Office argued Wednesday.

That figure pales in comparison to the nearly $11.9 million that the federal government wants Francis X. Gartland - the Baltimore insurance broker who paid Ritacco as much as $2.5 million in bribes between 2002 to 2010 - to reimburse the school district.

But it is more than the $1.6 million that government lawyers said former Ritacco aide Frank D'Alonzo owes the district in restitution for ...